sense of language in our mother tongue, which thereby is incurably
injured and destroyed. The two nations which have produced the
greatest stylists, the Greeks and the French, learned no foreign
languages; but as human intercourse grows more cosmopolitan, and
as, for instance, a good merchant in London must now be able to
read and write eight languages, the learning of many tongues has
certainly become a necessary evil; but which, when finally carried
to an extreme, will compel mankind to find a remedy, and in some far
off future there will be a new language used at first as a language
of commerce, then as a language of intellectual intercourse, then
for all, as surely as some time or other there will be aviation. Why
else should philology have studied the laws of language for a whole
century and have estimated the necessary, the valuable, and the
successful portion of each separate language? (Nietsche.)

In this connection it may be well to repeat once more that Esperanto is
only an "auxiliary" language. Nobody dreams of it being a "universal
language."

EXAMPLES OF ESPERANTO.

Simpla, fleksebla, belsona, vere internacia en siaj elementoj[1],
la lingvo Esperanto prezentas al la mondo civilizita la sole veran
solvon[2] de lingvo internacia: cxar[3], tre facila por homoj nemulte
instruitaj, Esperanto estas komprenata sen peno de la personoj bone
edukitaj. Mil faktoj atestas la meriton praktikan de la nomita lingvo.

[1] "j" has the sound of English "y", as in boy, and is the sign for
the plural of nouns and adjectives.